Owens-Illinois Glass Company

Owens-Illinois Makes

New Acquisitions.

Announcement has been made by Wm. E. Levis, president of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., of contracts entered into for the purchase of the entire assets and business of the Hemingray Glass Co., Muncie, Indiana, and of substantially all the assets of the O'Neill Machine Co., of Toledo.

The Hemingray company has specialized in the production of glass insulators for many years and numbers among its customers the principal users of insulators for electrical wiring in the United States. It is stated that this product can be included very suitably in the marketing activities of the Owens-Illinois Industrial Materials Division which has recently developed a number of new glass products such as glass wool for building insulation and air filters, and glass block, of which a colorful building has been constructed at the Century of Progress Exposition.

The acquisition of the O'Neill Machine Co. settles patent litigation that had arisen between the two companies in connection with the O'Neill company's experimental development of an automatic bottle-blowing machine. The patent position of the Owens-Illinois Company is strengthened as a result, and further developments in automatic bottle blowing machines are predicted.